Bag



Oct. 28 1924.

IC. E. KIDDER BAG iugm.

Oct. 28 1924.

c. E. KIDEJER BAG Filed Dec.7, 1920` 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Oct. 28, 1924.

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BAG.

Application med December 7, 1920. serial No. 428,879.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CARRIE EDGARDA Km- DER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have in vented an Improvement in Bags, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

rllhis invention pertains to improvements in bags, and more particularly, though not exclusively, to bags of thc type used largely by women and called shopping bags or opera bags. TheJ invention is, however, applicable to other types of bags, such as school bags, knitting bags and bags for other purposes.

It is among the objects of the invention to provide a bag of simple construction, not likely to get out of order, which can be readily opened and closed by the user when desired, and which cannot be opened accidentally when in normal use or without the knowledge of the user.

In'the dra-wings, which show an illustrative form of a preferred form of my invention Figure 1 is a front elevation of a bag constituting a preferred embodiment of one form of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bag, shown in Fig. l, when open;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the bag when open, a hand being shown in dotted lines to illustrate the preferred way of entering the bag illustrated, as for removal of articles therefrom; and

Fig. l is a section on the line Lw-i of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings and to the pre ferredform of my invention selected for illustrative purposes, I have shown a bag providing a depending container 5, preferably of flexible material such as cloth or the like, and provided with an opening 6 at its top through which articles may be introduced into the bag or removed therefrom. The opening 6 is preferably, as illustrated, provided with a shaped gathering element, preferably rigid and preferably taking the general form of a ring 7, which may to advantage be, as illustrated, oval in shape. The ring 7, as illustrated, is assembled with the flexible portions of the bag in such a way that it may gather the greater portion of the material surrounding the opening in the bag, a sutlicient portion of the material adjacent the opening of the bag preferably being free of the gathering element so as to permit the material to pass over a diametertiof the ring, or gathering element, that the may be opened by turning the ring in a plane generally transverse to the general plane of the bag and preferably in a direction toward that side of the opening in theii" bag which is free of the gathering element. The ring or gathering eleme-nt 1s preferably of such proportions as to admit the hand of the user to pass through the ring into the interior of the ring as illustrated in Fig. 3. The gathering means is preferabl)r assembled with those portions of the bag adjacent the opening therein sufliciently freely7 so that the bag will close when the gathering` element is tipped into the general plane of the axis of the bag, or in a generally vertical direction, this closure being effected by the action of gravity on the bag or on the.` bag and the contents thereof. lhere the gathering element is oval shaped, the closure ried, it cannot be accidentally opened, and

it cannot be opened without the knowledge of the person carrying the bag.

The details of carrying out my invention may be greatly varied, but I prefer that the depending portion of the bag shall be made entirely of flexible material, as illustrated, and that this iiexible material be doubled to provide an outside portion and a lining portion. I prefer that the outside portion and the lining portion be connected as by being sewn together at the bottom 8, as best shown in Fig. 4, and I prefer that the gathering element shall fit loosely between the outside fabric and lining fabric so that there will be as little resistance as possible to opening and closing of the bag, those portions of the fabric which in the preferred form of my inmentioned function so that small ai;

vention pass over the ring beine' freely slidable on the ring.

ln the preferred form of my invention selected for illustrative purposes, I have provided as a part of the periphery of the opening' of the bag adjacent 'that portion thereof where the ring' is exposed when the bag is open, a slit 9 having` the corners of the adjacent fabric turned down as at l0, l0 to provide an ornamental and .linished effect, The slit serves a useful function. viz, to permit the gathered portions of the han' to )man over a diameter of the rigid .e'atheri .fr means herein typified by the rin i'. rlhis slit may be enlarged somewhat be 'ond the amount necessary to perform the above lea may be dropped vinto the bag without passage thereof through the ring pursuant to opening of the bag', as illustrated in 2 and 3. The space af rded by the slit is, however7 preferably su iently small so that hand could not be introduced into the bag' through the slit without the knowledge oil" the one carrying the bag.

When normally carried in the hand or on the arm of the user, the bag parts occupy the general position illustrai'ed in lzlip', l. T"Vhen the bag is to he open-ed Jfor the introduction of an article of a considerable si 'i or for the removal of articles the icm, the upper portion of the ring 7. as i, .owed in Fig'. l, may be `grasped and the ringT tipped into horizontal plane, the upper portion of the ringv as viewed in Figi'. l beine; inclinedL toward that side of the ban' having' the slit therein. The gathered portion of the hair may then be readily drawn about the rin .L and the hand 'of the user inserted as viewed in Fig'Y 3. When it is again desired to close the bag, the exposed portion of the ring i'. illustrated in Fig. 3, may be grasped and the ring permitted to tip into vertical posi tion, thus causing 'the material to slide over the ring and to be lgathered at the lower end thereof. l/Vhere the ring' is oval or provides a narrowed end and 'whore this narrowed end is downward the gathering action is accentuated as before described.

lVhile l have shown and described a preferred embodiment of my invention,1 vit will be understood that major changes involving omission, alteration, substitution and rearrangement of parts may be made without departing from the scope of my invention, which is best defined the followings claims.

Claims:

l. The combination of a bag' of flexible material having an opening' at the 'tc-p. with a rigid ringlile gathering element at the opening' of the bag, the union between the and the gathering element being; a loose one free of any restricting stitching or seams and permitting considerable play or freedem of movement of the bag relative to the gathering;` element, said movement beine permitted not only about the perimeter of the gathering' element but also longitudinally of the hat'7 the gathering' element hai'- ,ing' a nua'rowed portion, whereby when the gathering' element is held in a substantially vertical position with the narrowed portion lowermost the is freely gathered and closed under the influence of gravity.

2. he combination of claim l. wherein the rigid gathering' element is oval.

ln testimony whereof, l have signed in). name to this specification.

CARRIE EDG-ABBA KID. Fh?, 

